Girl arrested over knife attack in Shibuya wanted "death penalty"

A teenage girl arrested over a random attack with a knife in Tokyo's Shibuya district has said she stabbed two people she came across because she "wanted to get the death penalty," the police said Sunday.The girl, who was arrested Saturday on the spot on suspicion of attempted murder, has been identified as a 15-year-old junior high school student from Toda, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo. Her name has been withheld because she is a minor.The girl is suspected of stabbing a 53-year-old woman and her daughter, 19, from behind at around 7:20 p.m. with a kitchen knife on a street in Maruya…READ FULL ARTICLE